Wired News: Google News: Beta Not Make Money: “So while other online publishers like Yahoo News and MSNBC earn tens of millions of dollars in revenue each year and continue to grow, Google News remains in beta mode — three years after it launched — long after most of the bugs have been excised.
The reason: [...]
Some writers have it, some don’t, and it doesn’t seem to mean a damn in terms of success. It’s style, that distinctive narrative voice that imbues a story with swagger, chattiness, or anything else that makes a reader feel the narrator is just too cool for words.
I don’t have it, at least in my fiction. [...]
I’ve been having some problems syncing with my desktop ever since I reconsecrated it as my workstation. I used to do everything on my laptop (I got it as a desktop replacement - which I took everywhere) but desired something with a constant sized footprint at a permanent location. Having my DVD+/-RW writer, [...]
If we need more refuation of the myth that the Republicans don’t believe in government assistance, an article on the TaxProf blog blows it to smithereens. It appears that 76% of the 32 states that receive more federal money than they pay in federal taxes are “red states” — states that voted Bush in 2000. [...]
Tapland - Tapwave Zodiac all the time. is celebrating it’s 1st anniversary by giving stuff away all week (doesn’t get much better then that). Scott dropped a couple hints today that tomorrows prize is perfect for those who don’t yet have a Zod but want one, I’ll trust you to figure out what the prize [...]
His internet access is kaput (that’s the technical term, I’m an IT guy I should know). So he asked me to post and apologize for his lack of rants. He should return within the next week to his former blog addicted self.
Tapland - Tapwave Zodiac News: New Engine Promises Net-Based Multiplayer Gaming
Introducing Punk, the Industry’s first complete mobile game development solution. Based on the Torque Game Engine from GarageGames, the Punk Mobile Game Engine is a fully featured AAA game engine with award winning multi-player
network code, seamless indoor/outdoor rendering engines, state of the art skeletal animation, [...]
I’m a fiend for writing in plain text. I hate proprietary formats, and I spend as little time in Word on my PC or PocketWord on my Pocket PC (PPC) as I can. On the PPC, there are a number of text editors, but only one of them supports multiple documents and none of them [...]
gapingvoid: “If you�re arranging your life in such a way that you need to make a lot of fuss between feeling the itch and getting to work, you�re putting the cart before the horse. You�re probably creating a lot of counterproductive �Me, The Artist, I must create, I must leave something to posterity� melodrama. Not [...]
Write what you know. That is a dictum that I had received from my advisor as I started writing a scientific paper. This is a piece of advice that bears well on any other style of writing one tries. As I began writing for WOYP, and as I attempted various expository or fiction works, I [...]